04-25-2008, 04:52 AM
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Has anyone calculated how much this is going to actually raise their annual cost on gas? For me it looks like about $350-400 this year. Most people could make that up by making their 12 pack last two weeks instead of one. Or save their beer and donate their stimulus payments to the pump. Or sell a kidney on the black market. Anything but give up the beer.
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04-30-2008, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by RetiredGypsy
Has anyone calculated how much this is going to actually raise their annual cost on gas? For me it looks like about $350-400 this year. Most people could make that up by making their 12 pack last two weeks instead of one. Or save their beer and donate their stimulus payments to the pump. Or sell a kidney on the black market. Anything but give up the beer.
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Head for the left side of the beer isle. The schlitz 1.99 a 6 pack the pabst the cheap brews in 16oz cans!!
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04-30-2008, 08:55 AM
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Head for the left side of the beer isle. The schlitz 1.99 a 6 pack the pabst the cheap brews in 16oz cans!!
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That's how my Dad retired early.........Old Milwaukee, Hamms, Schlitz, and the ocassional splurge on PBR............ 
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04-30-2008, 10:08 AM
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04-30-2008, 10:20 AM
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Don't worry about gas prices. The God and Guns brigade has the answer: Streetsblog » Americans Turn to Prayer at the Pump. 
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04-30-2008, 11:36 AM
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Folks, a little prayer never hurts and it can make one's soul feel a little bit better.
GOD BLESS US ALL 
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04-30-2008, 02:49 PM
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Head for the left side of the beer isle. The schlitz 1.99 a 6 pack the pabst the cheap brews in 16oz cans!!
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$1.99 a 6 pack? Not anywhere I've been to. The cheapest they carry is bud, $4.95 a 6 pack. 
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04-30-2008, 02:59 PM
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You should hit up walmart. 30 pack of miller high life cans for $12.00! Woo hoo! Or the 12 pack of bottles for $6
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04-25-2008, 05:01 AM
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$4/ gallon soon... $10/gal several years from now.
The USA needs alternative energy in a large way.
I think if we pave the way for alternative (greener solutions) we can lead in new industries, help with Global Climate change and rid ourselves from the middle east scourge of dependence on that unstable area of the world.
I think the US can lead in this area of technology...
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04-25-2008, 06:04 AM
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Our local Chevron went to $4.02 for regular a week or so ago.
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04-25-2008, 09:28 AM
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My gas bill for the year should drop (at current rates) about 25%
Of course, when it came time for me to buy I car late last year I bought one that got about twice the mpg 
So personally, no, I am not all that upset. Not thrilled but not royally ticked off yet.
Economical hydrogen powered cars are many years off. Electric cars for daily use are the way to go. The technology is available, we just need the big three to get on board (and not jump ship like they did in the 90s).
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04-29-2008, 11:14 PM
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We're up to $3.75/g. I won't be able to fill the ducati for under $10 anymore 
DD
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04-30-2008, 03:47 AM
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paid 4.14 in new york yesterday for premuim
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04-30-2008, 03:57 AM
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paid 4.14 in new york yesterday for premuim
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Lol. Looks like we will get our stimulus checks just in time to send them to Saudi Arabia.
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04-30-2008, 07:03 AM
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NBC News - Siphoning off corn to fuel our cars - As farmers feed ethanol plants, a costly link is forged between food and oil
Siphoning off corn to fuel our cars - Washington Post - MSNBC.com
Excerpts from the article
Although ethanol was once promoted as a way to slow climate change, a study published in Science magazine Feb. 29 concluded that greenhouse-gas emissions from corn and even cellulosic ethanol "exceed or match those from fossil fuels and therefore produce no greenhouse benefits." By encouraging an expansion of acreage, the study added, the use of U.S. cropland for ethanol could make climate conditions dramatically worse. And the runoff from increased use of fertilizers on expanded acreage would compound damage to waterways all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Development specialists have also joined the fray. "While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs, and it is getting more and more difficult every day," World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick said in a recent
speech.
End of excerpts.
It appears that the increased use of corn for ethanol is not only driving up food and feed costs, and creating food shortages but also damaging the en·vi·ron·ment.
Maybe it's time that the U.S revisit the use of HEMP as an alternate fuel source. 
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04-30-2008, 03:41 PM
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Mmmmm. You're making a good case for buying a really old beater to make beer runs on. I wouldn't trust a 30 pack of anything on the back of my motorcycle. I don't even know if that would be legal.
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04-30-2008, 03:49 PM
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Mmmmm. You're making a good case for buying a really old beater to make beer runs on. I wouldn't trust a 30 pack of anything on the back of my motorcycle. I don't even know if that would be legal.
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As long as you leave 26 to 27 of the cans unopened in the case, it should be legal. I guess .08 is still the legal limit for motorcyclists, the same as for drivers of passenger vehicles.
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04-30-2008, 05:02 PM
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"Religitoriously speaking, Americans are the most blessed person in America. The world doesn't know this yet, but we do, and now the rest of America knows it too."
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05-01-2008, 12:39 PM
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We've been discussing "Peak Oil" for a few years, and making predictions of high oil prices and volatility, but you don't hear people say "well, it's come to pass."
Do you think that we are seeing the effects of peak oil?
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